Uncertainties make for a variety of possible futures. Add to that expectations and a bunch of competitive people and you have a nice set of ingredients for a market or betting game. We already wrote about the Long Now Foundation’s Long Bets and Fabrica’s Stock exchange of Visions. For those of you hungry for more, check out Predictify, the Foresight Exchange or Foresight Markets.

Prediction markets are no new phenomenon, but with such high public interest in wisdom-of-the-crowds, the pop-up frequency of new initiatives is on the rise as well. Check out Mercury’s Blog dedicated to prediction markets.

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